Mostly unfinished stories primarily produced as a direct result of my association with the OC Writers Guild

Day: April 11, 2017

Miss Noodle was crouched behind the table that had been carefully positioned in the center of the coop. She was silent and scared. If Mr. MacGregor caught them meeting tonight he would surely roast them all. There was room for four to sit, but no one else had arrived yet. Wait, was that a noise? Was someone coming?

A low whisper crept through the door, “Noodle? Noodle, are you here?”

Miss Noodle kept her beak shut and crouched a bit lower behind the table. She ducked her head.

“Noodle? It’s me, Little. Are you here?”

“I’m here Little,” Miss Noodle replied almost as quietly and through a sigh of relief, “come inside, quick and be quiet.”

The two hens huddled together.

“Shhhh,” said Miss Noodle.

“Hush,” said Miss Little. “Do you hear that?”

“What?”

“Sounds like someone singing in… French? Or maybe Italian?”

They listened, to a tuneless and quiet rendition of would could have been raucous music, indeed would have been raucous music – were it louder, creeping up through the floorboards into the coop where the girls huddled with their wings around one another for comfort.

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Book Bandits and Prompts

– In September 2012 I joined up with a group of writers calling themselves “OC Writers Guild” (A Merry Band of Book Bandits). We would meet on Saturdays at the CSMA Library and write. My fellow “book bandits” are a talented and gracious group. They still meet although I have moved out of the area.

Because I missed them so much I am trying to create an on-line writer’s guild. Check it out here…
https://aooga.wordpress.com/

The name 'Pensieve' is a homonym of 'pensive' meaning deeply, seriously thoughtful; but is also a pun, the 'sieve' part of the word alluding to the object's function of sorting meanings from a mass of thoughts or memories. (Source: Pottermore)